ONQ SPECIAL REPORT
Rx For Healthier Living
OnQ partners with Highmark
for this series of special reports on health disparities in Pittsburgh's African-American community.
Content
MONDAY | JUNE 6
Rx For Healthier Living
Cover Story: Minority Health Disparities - explores the creation of this gap in health care, how it affects everyone, and what's being done to solve the problem. Chris Moore reports.
Live Guest: Angela Ford, Center for Minority Health
Related links:
Pennsylvania Children's Health Insurance Program (Tel: 1-800-986-KIDS)
Pennsylvania Adult Basic Insurance Call 1-800-GO-BASIC or apply online here.
TUESDAY | JUNE 7
Rx For Healthier Living
Cover Story: Healthy Messages - explores ways to bring good healthcare into Pittsburgh's African-American communities. One innovative program involves barbershops. Tonia Caruso reports.
Related Link: Center for Minority Health
Also Tonight: High Blood Pressure - all too common among African-American men. OnQ contributor Harold Hayes reports on his own medical condition.
Related Information on WebMD
Live Guest: Devra Davis, director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
Related Link:
When Smoke Ran Like Water
WEDNESDAY | JUNE 8
Cover Story: Cultural Barriers between doctors and patients are a major obstacle in minority health care. Chris Moore reports on one local doctor, Dr. Bruce Block, who trains others to become more "culturally competent."
Related Links:
Center for Minority Health
Centers for Healthy Hearts and Souls
Also Tonight: Dental Care in the African-American Community - OnQ contributor Lori Savitch reports on a scholarship program at West Virginia University that puts qualified dentists in the communities that need them.
Live Guest: Robin Cole Discusses His Prostate Cancer, how the disease impacts African-American men, and promotes an upcoming race to raise money for prostate cancer research.
Read Post-Gazette article.
Related Events:
First Annual Faith & Health Home Run Breakfast
Saturday, June 11 at 8:30 a.m.
Centre City Marriott, Downtown Pittsburgh
Father's Day 5K/10K Race for Prostate Cancer Education
Sunday, June 19 at 8:00 a.m.
North Shore Riverfront Park
For more information about either event call: 412-765-3190
THURSDAY | JUNE 9
Cover Story: Healthy Black Family - is a project that closes the disparity gap - by educating parents and kids. Michael Bartley reports.
Also Tonight: Class of 2010. See what one local middle school is doing to help kids eat, learn and play healthier. Michael Bartley reports from Rooney Middle School.
Live Guest: Dr. Stephen Thomas, director of the Center for Minority Health at the University of Pittsburgh.
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